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Timeless Gifts Through The Ages Cultural Borrowing

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Where we first learned to design and construct buildings? Did you ever wonder…

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Where we got our ideas about government? Did you ever wonder…

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Why we build roads the way we do? Did you ever wonder…

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Why we believe the sun is the center of the universe? Did you ever wonder…

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Did you ever wonder… Why we hold the Olympics?

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Who painted some of the art displayed in our museums? Did you ever wonder…

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Where our language came from? Did you ever wonder…

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Why we live in a country that is very advanced? Did you ever wonder…

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We are advanced, in part, because we have borrowed the ideas of people who came before us. We took the best of what other people developed years ago.

From the Ancient Greeks we have... : 

From the Ancient Greeks we have... theater architecture democracy Olympics

From the Ancient Romans we have... : 

From the Ancient Romans we have... roads language elected officials architecture

From the Middle Ages we have... : 

From the Middle Ages we have... limited government architecture

From the Renaissance we have... : 

From the Renaissance we have... exploration and discovery Many Inventions

From the Renaissance we have... : 

From the Renaissance we have... great works of art

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In fact, all cultures have shared and borrowed inventions, art, ideas, etc. from each other since the beginning of time. This is called... cultural borrowing

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How did people borrow from one another many years ago?

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How do we communicate new ideas and inventions with one another in today’s modern culture?

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We are going to study four periods in history from which we have borrowed many ideas that continue to shape our modern culture.

They are... : 

Ancient Rome They are... The Renaissance The Middle Ages Ancient Greece

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So why are these time periods so special to cultural borrowing? It is not so much when these people lived, but where they lived.

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Geography was the bridge that allowed cultures to borrow from each other.

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Why would Europe be a good place for people to trade ideas? The people from these eras lived on the continent of Europe.

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many peninsulas access to the sea diverse people living close together near other continents

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What do we call the sharing of ideas between cultures? Cultural Borrowing

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What should I remember about cultural borrowing? What are the enduring understandings?

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Geography influences the development of culture. A culture’s development is dependent upon its ability to adapt to or modify the environment.

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The foundations of modern society are built on contributions from the past. =

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Timeless Gifts Through The Ages Cultural Borrowing

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Web Gallery of Art . Rembrandt Image. <http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/r/rembran/painting/portrai2/index.html> La Joconde (aka Mona Lisa) Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) <http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/a3.htm> Works Cited